A man allegedly wielding a knife was shot and killed by police in North Hills on Sunday.

Los Angeles police officers responded to a call about 5:50 p.m. in the 8800 block of Norwich Avenue, said Sgt. Darren Holst of the West Valley Division.

The man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police and the county coroner’s office.

No other information was immediately available.

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The incident was the second fatal shooting by Los Angeles police over the weekend.

The first occurred about 3:35 p.m. near the intersection of Courtney Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard at the base of the Hollywood Hills, said Sgt. Robert Ward of the L.A. Police Department’s Hollywood station.

About an hour earlier, police had received a report of a resident encountering a burglar inside a home. The burglar left, and officers set up a perimeter and searched the area, Ward said.

A handgun and items stolen from the home were found on the suspect after the shooting, police said.

Valley detectives also were investigating another fatal incident. A man and a woman were found dead Sunday afternoon in a residence in the 7600 block of Oso Ave in Winnetka, according to watch commander Larry Dietz of the L.A. County coroner’s office.

Howard Blume covers education for the Los Angeles Times. He’s won the top investigative reporting prize from the L.A. Press Club and print Journalist of the Year from the L.A. Society of Professional Journalists chapter. He co-hosts “Deadline L.A.” on KPFK, which the press club named best radio public affairs show in 2010. He teaches tap dancing and has two superior daughters.

Victoria Kim reports from Seoul, South Korea, for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2007, she has covered the state and federal courts and the Korean community in Los Angeles. Her work has included investigations on the cover-up of the sex abuse scandal in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, killing of unarmed suspects by the Inglewood police, underpaid workers in the garment district and unaccredited law schools in California. She has previously written for the Associated Press in South Korea and West Africa, as well as the Financial Times in New York. Victoria was raised in Seoul and graduated from Harvard University.